Happy New Year, Optigoners!

We have two new disc titles for you! Both are available NOW, exclusively at the Quilter Labs web shop!

PIZZICATO POP is the latest in our series of excavatons into the Optigan Archives in search of material that was left on the cutting room floor. The working title for this disc was “Contemporary #107.” It was recorded in 1970 during the intial Optigan sessions in Cologne, Germany, with pizzicato string overdubs being added sometime later. Previously only heard on the song “Hope In Your Eyes” by Optiganally Yours. The keyboard sound is also from the Optigan Archives- an experiment that combines a Hammond B3 with a hand-played tremolo on an RMI Rocksichord.

POLYVOX is the famous Vox Humana preset from a classic 1970s polyphonic synth. We simply gave it a different name to avoid confusion with the vintage Optigan disc of the same title. Try it with the Panoptigon’s hall reverb turned up, and the main volume knob turned all the way down, to simulate a slow attack rate. Thanks to our good friend Alex Ball for providing the sounds for this one!